The Second Boston Massacre

While we are all still numb with grief for our fellow Americans who were maimed or killed on Patriots Day (April 15, 2013), and before American history gets revised too much by the statists among us, it should be remembered that the Boston Massacre of March 5, 1770 was one of the occurrences that incited the first American Revolutionary War. That was back in the day when British troops bullied their way onto the shores of America to enforce the heavy burden of the King of England’s new taxes. That was also back in the day when the full context of individual freedom was the nexus for our young country.

As the story goes, in 1770, five Bostonian colonists were murdered in cold blood when a British soldier fired into an angry crowd, which then caused something of a chain reaction of gunshots into the gathering of patriots. These new Americans were protesting what was seen as the overreach of King George III into the business of the men and women who had forged a new life free from the tyranny of Kings and Parliamentary rulers from afar.

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Today, Americans don’t want to fight (we aren’t quite as hardy as our forebearers), but we still want to live free from the tyranny of Kings and rulers from afar.

It is tragic to see that our country, our way of life, and our futures are being challenged by the most despicable bullies imaginable – the terrorists. Pray that we find a way to remain free without another American revolution.

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